Re: Work Participation at EC
From: Dahako (Dahakoaol.com)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:56:04 -0600 (MDT)
Hi -

I'm not at Eno Commons anymore, but I used to cook and eat there regularly.  I 
think participation is high at EC because most members joined after the common 
meals tradition started (about 2 years before move-in).  EC started regular 
food sharing with week-end pancake brunches at my dad's house, then graduated 
to Tuesday night pasta and after-meeting Sunday dinners, through potlucks and 
on to scheduled cooking teams.  

The general rule is "if you eat, you cook".  Cooking teams get scheduled a 
calendar quarter at a time.  If an EC adult has life circumstances that will 
keep him/her from cooking for a quarter, the scheduler is the only one who has 
to be told.  That person still eats that quarter, on the expectation that 
he/she will return to galley duty when life permits.  An example of this would 
be a person who has surgery in a particular quarter.

Each cooking/cleaning team pays for the dinner it provides and most people see 
the dinners they cook as a gift or hospitality offered to the community.  
Sign-ups and contributions are only necessary for special celebratory meals.  
Otherwise, neighbors just show up for dinner.  Guests, announced and 
unannounced, are pretty common - I showed up last weekend and was served a 
lovely summer meal.  

-Jessie Handforth Kome
Eastern Village Cohousing
Silver Spring, MD
Where we haven't figured out the details of cooking for 55 households.  But we 
know we will someday.
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